sans recours

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
SANS RECOURS. Without recourse. 
     2. These words are sometimes put on a bill before the payee endorses 
it; they have the effect of transferring the bill without responsibility to 
the endorser. Chit. on Bills, 179; 7 Taunt. 160; 1 Cowen, 538; 3 Cranch, 
193; 7 Cranch, 159; 12 Mass. 172; 14 S. & R. 325. 
    

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